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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Meat man, post: 26418963, member: 135271&quot;]One of my latest acquisitions is this fine silver peso, minted for the Philippines during the United States administrative period. Teddy Roosevelt of recent Rough Rider fame was President, and Rudyard Kipling was urging the United States, in a poem expressing a fine sentiment albeit in what would be considered today somewhat demeaning language, to &quot;<a href="https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_burden.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_burden.htm" rel="nofollow">Take up the White Man&#039;s Burden</a>&quot;:&nbsp; to join the other great powers in establishing and administering a colonial empire.</p><p>The US did administer the Philippines for a time, but almost from the start began to work towards developing and preparing the Philippines for independence. The islands were taken over by the Japanese in WWII (leading to General Douglas MacArthur&#039;s famous statement &quot;I shall return.&quot;) but after they were expelled, full independence was granted in 1946.</p><p>An interesting, and unusual, piece of American history.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><i>[ATTACH=full]1685575[/ATTACH] </i></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i>PHILIPPINES</i></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i>Insular Government, 1899-1935</i></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i>AR 1 Peso (38mm, 26.95g, 6h)</i></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i>Dated 1903. Philadelphia, USA mint</i></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i>Obverse: Woman standing left, holding hammer over anvil; smoking volcano behind; ONE PESO above, FILIPINAS below</i></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i>Reverse: Shield surmounted by eagle with wings spread; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA above, · 1903 · below</i></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i>References: Numista 4349</i></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i>Mintage: 2,791,000</i></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i>Richly toned. In PCGS encapsulation, graded AU58.</i></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i>American involvement in the Philippines began in 1898, when the island territory was ceded to the United States by the Spanish empire at the conclusion of the Spanish-American War. The following year, 1899, an insular government was established by the United States Congress which allowed a degree of Filipino participation under a governor-general appointed by the US President. Over the following decades, the Philippines were granted expanding degrees of self-governance until 1946 when, after the expulsion of the Japanese during World War II, full independence was achieved.</i></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i><br /></i></p><p>And here is the PCGS image:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1685585[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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